Accession No

0735

Brief Description

folding coin balance, by A. Wilkinson, English, 1786-1798

Origin

England; Orsmkirk

Maker

Wilkinson, A.

Class

balances

Earliest Date

1786

Latest Date

1798

Inscription Date

Material

metal (brass, steel); paper

Dimensions

length 128 mm; width 18 mm; depth 11 mm

Special Collection

Robert Whipple collection

Provenance

Purchased from C.H. Booker, London SW1, England, with A. Randall’s help, on 29/08/1933.

Inscription

‘A. WILKINSON, Ormskirk
(Late of KIRKBY,)
Near LIVERPOOL’ (label in base)
‘Price 8s’ (label in base)

Description Notes

Single turn type. Brass case, beam and pans. Beam graduated 0 - 12 pennies, numbered by 3, subdivided to 1 with 4 notches before 0 for farthings overweight; sprung slide; ‘H’ type hanger with ‘doll’s head’ coin pan with rectangular extension to hanger. Steel tips to hanger and column. Cranked column erected by hinge automatically as box opens. Brass link and rest. End of box mended or modified.
Instruction label in box is badly damaged and partly illegible.

Condition: fair (damage to instruction label); complete.

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